One year ago today, the police waited until sunset to brutalise us at Clapham Common. Today, we waited until sunset to detonate 1000 rape alarms at Charing Cross station 🚨🚨🚨 When we found out about Sarah's disappearance at the hands of a serving cop, we asked the police, how will you keep us safe? And the police said: stay home. Stay hidden. Carry a rape alarm. When we refused to hide away, when we gathered in grief and anger at Clapham Common to mourn our sister, Sarah Everard, the police brutalised us. Today we say: police are the perpetrators. Police don’t keep us safe. That is why have thrown our rape alarms back at the perpetrators in the infamous Charing Cross police station. We maintain that police violence against women is not new. At least 15 women have been killed by police officers since 2009. As reported in the Guardian, one woman A WEEK comes forward to report a serving police officer for domestic or sexual violence. What makes this worse is we live in a time when rape is effectively decriminalised, with 99% of all rapes reported to police in England and Wales resulting in no legal proceedings against alleged attackers. Who do they protect? Who do they serve? ---- And why Charing Cross? ⚠️TW⚠️ An IOPC report released in February investigated various allegations against officers at Charing Cross police station, including a police officer assaulting his partner, officers having sex while on duty, racist and sexist Whatsapp messages, including some sent within a police officer Whatsapp group that said ‘I would happily rape you’ and ‘if I was single I would happily chloroform you.’ The investigation is the latest in an outpouring of abuse reports within the Metropolitan Police since the vigil, most recently culminating in the resignation of Cressida Dick. The vigil kickstarted the #KillTheBill movement, which has seen thousands of people protest the introduction of expanded policing powers in the Policing, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill. We will not stop until women are safe from police & all other perpetrators. 💚💪💜 📸 @heardinlondon